The Monsters

Oct 30, 1963

2h 3m

★ 7.4

14 Happenings! Wild! Weird! Wonderful!

Overview

The myths of the sixties are satirized in 20 episodes.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Fair Film

Incei Film

Mountfluor Film

Dicifrance

The Monsters Trailers

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Cast

The Father (segment "L'Educazione sentimentale") / Policeman (segment "Il Mostro") / Stefano (segment "Come un Padre") / Battacchi (segment "Il povero Soldato") / L'Onorevole (segment "La Giornata dell'Onorevole") / Dark Latin Lover (segment "Latin Lovers-Amanti latini") / Pilade Fioravanti (segment "Testimone volontario") / The Traffic Warden (segment "L'Agguato") / The Car Buyer (segment "Vernissage") / Spectator at the Cinema (segment "Scenda l'Oblio") / The Husband (segment "L'Oppio dei Popoli") / Guarnacci (segment "La nobile Arte")

Ugo Tognazzi

The Actor (segment "La Raccomandazione") / Policeman (segment "Il Mostro") / Production Assistant & Movie Director (segment "Presa dalla Vita") / Nicola (segment "Che Vitaccia!") / Blonde Latin Lover (segment "Latin Lovers-Amanti latini") / Defence Layer D'Amore (segment "Testimone volontario") / Richetto (segment "I due Orfanelli") / Roberto (segment "Il Sacrificato") / Elisa (segment "La Musa") / The Road Hog (segment "La Strada è di Tutti") / The Friar (segment "Il Testamento di Francesco") / Artemio Altidori (segment "La nobile Arte")

Vittorio Gassman

Luchino (segment "Come un padre")

Lando Buzzanca

Paola Fioravanti (segment "Testimone volontario")

Marisa Merlini

Giuliana (segment "Il Sacrificato")

Rika Dialina

The Wife (segment "L'Oppio dei Popoli")

Michèle Mercier

The Lover (segment "L'Oppio dei Popoli")

Marino Masé

Giulio Francusi (segment "La Raccomandazione")

Franco Castellani

Olimpia Ceccarelli (segment "Presa dalla Vita")

Maria Mannelli

The Police Officer (segment "Il povero Soldato")

Mario Laurentino

Ersilia (segment "Che Vitaccia!")

Angela Portaluri

Ministry of Public Works's Director (segment "La Giornata dell'Onorevole")

Carlo Kechler

Venerable newscaster Norm Archer reports the latest news in politics, health, culture and entertainment - such as an automotive recall of decapitation-inducing "Neckbelts" and a study finding that "depression hits losers hardest". This compilation of bogus news stories, celebrity profiles, movie trailers and skits come courtesy of the ace satirists at The Onion.

6.3

How to Get Ahead in Advertising

May 5, 1989

Pressure from his boss and a skin-cream client produces a talking boil on a British adman's neck.

6.8

Help!

Jul 29, 1965

An obscure Eastern cult that practices human sacrifice pursues Ringo after he unknowingly puts on a ceremonial ring (that, of course, won't come off). On top of that, a pair of mad scientists, members of Scotland Yard, and a beautiful but dead-eyed assassin all have their own plans for the Fab Four.

6.0

CB4

Mar 12, 1993

A "rockumentary", covering the rise to fame of MC Gusto, Stab Master Arson, and Dead Mike: members of the rap group "CB4". We soon learn that these three are not what they seem and don't appear to know as much about rap music as they claim... but a lack of musical ability in an artist never hurts sales, does it? You've just got to play the part of a rap star...

5.8

Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild!

Nov 6, 2008

Four university students head to Florida for spring break and enroll in a contest to see who can get the most sexual partners.

5.9

All the Rage

Jun 11, 1997

ALL THE RAGE takes a satirical and poignant look at one gay man's obsessive pursuit of physical, sexual, and romantic perfection. Christopher Bedford is everyone's fantasy. He's gorgeous, young, clever, rich, and above all, totally buffed and every boy in Boston seems to want him. At thirty-one, he's gliding through life, celebrating himself as the 90's gay playboy ideal, without ever realizing what a mess he's become.

7.0

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

Dec 7, 1988

An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits.

6.4

Cecil B. Demented

Aug 2, 2000

A young lunatic director and his devoted cult of cinema terrorists kidnap a Hollywood movie goddess and force her to star in their radical underground movie.

6.2

The History of White People in America

Jun 4, 1985

In this parody of documentaries, host Martin Mull discusses the contributions that white people have made to the USA, visits the Institute of White Studies, and follows a typical white family as they go about their everyday lives.

5.0

Finishing the Game: The Search for a New Bruce Lee

Jan 21, 2007

In 1973, martial arts great Bruce Lee died, his final film, Game of Death, left unfinished. With the public hungry for more Lee, movie execs decide to find a replacement. This outrageous satire looks at the entire process, from the oddball candidates to the greed and racial motivations that drive the final decision. There's big business in the movies, and Finishing the Game skewers it with an eye for '70s detail.

5.6

Striptease

Jun 28, 1996

Bounced from her job, Erin Grant needs money if she's to have any chance of winning back custody of her child. But, eventually, she must confront the naked truth: to take on the system, she'll have to take it all off. Erin strips to conquer, but she faces unintended circumstances when a hound dog of a Congressman zeroes in on her and sharpens the shady tools at his fingertips, including blackmail and murder.

6.8

They Called Him Bulldozer

Sep 15, 1978

The "Bulldozer", a former football star, is now working as a fisherman. As a group of street-people arranges a football match against the local Armybase, he is asked to be their trainer. His boat was damaged by a submarine and he currently has no work, so he agrees.

5.6

The Hotel New Hampshire

Mar 9, 1984

Over the course of several years beginning in the 1950s, a man and his oddball family run hotels in New England and Vienna, as unexpected events change their lives forever.

6.8

History of the World: Part I

Jun 12, 1981

An uproarious version of history that proves nothing is sacred – not even the Roman Empire, the French Revolution and the Spanish Inquisition.

6.4

Fido

Sep 7, 2006

Timmy Robinson's best friend in the whole wide world is a six-foot tall rotting zombie named Fido. But when Fido eats the next-door neighbor, Mom and Dad hit the roof, and Timmy has to go to the ends of the earth to keep Fido a part of the family. A boy-and-his-dog movie for grown ups, "Fido" will rip your heart out.

5.8

1941

Dec 14, 1979

In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub.

5.8

Not Another Teen Movie

Dec 7, 2001

On a bet, a gridiron hero at John Hughes High School sets out to turn a bespectacled plain Jane into a beautiful and popular prom queen in this outrageous send-up of the teen movies of the 1980s and '90s.

5.6

Fast and Sexy

Apr 18, 1958

A beautiful, wealthy widow leaves New York to find herself a husband in the Italian village in which she was born. After many tries she...chooses the village blacksmith.